Mullins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 1937
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waller v. Graves · Home Insurance v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. · Russell v. City of Ashland · Gee v. Commonwealth · Knipp v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not entirely in accord with this contention of the commonwealth, since evidence is not necessarily cumulative because it tends to the establishment of the principal fact. If it is directed toward the establishment of a collateral fact or circumstances, about which no testimony had been introduced, but which bears upon the principal fact, it is not necessarily cumulative. [Citing authorities.] ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snyder v. Snyder
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.